Actually at our clinic you can vaccinate AND sterilize 3 cats for $50. And since in most cases you get 1 shot at trapping a cat....doing both at the same time has both the benefits of taking that cat out of the breeding program via spaying/neutering and vaccinating it for a year.$50 you can vaccinate 10 animals for rabies, or sterilize one animal (and maybe vaccinate that one too.)
Show me an instance of an increase in rabies in cats at a location where a successful TNR program has been implemented.Cats certainly ARE considered rabies risks. In the recent report I saw for our area (central North Carolina) two counties reported cats as the third highest number of cases, and one as the second highest (two animals in each of these three instances.)
"Estimates"..that's the key word isn't it. No one officially knows how many ferals/strays are out there...it's all a guesimate. Like the 2 cats equals 420,000 after X number of years. Both are misleading.Estimates by USDA suggest the numbers of stray and feral cats are continuing to rise and are only slightly less than the 73 million estimated to be in households.
Katie